Thread: 2008 Regional Registration Progress
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Re: 2008 Regional Registration Progress
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
If my count is in the neighborhood, 68 vets didn't re-register in 2007, 101 in 2006, and 144 in 2005. Hovering around a 90% retention rate. Of course some of those teams just took a year off and did reappear the following season.

Each year the number of rookies keeps climbing and the number of veteran teams lost to us keeps dropping.

We're about 70 registered rookies ahead of this same time last year. That will likely translate into an unusually large increase this year in the total number of rookies (we might hope). For the past three seasons FRC has gained ~40 more new teams over the gain of the year before (2005-208, 2006-243, 2007-286).
Predictions for fun anyone?
I'll stick with my earlier prediction: 400 rookie FRC teams in 2008. If you estimate using the recent year trends that Mark provided above, my figure is about 25% higher than the extrapolation -- but I'm allowed to dream. There are 200 rookies registered as of this evening, and we're only about halfway through the registration period, so my dream-figure is still possible.
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